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    None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
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    None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
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    None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

    By Lawrence Cappello

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    Capello investigates why we’ve been so blithe about giving up our privacy and all the opportunities we’ve had along the way to rein it in.

    Every day, Americans surrender their private information to entities claiming to have their best interests in mind. This trade-off has long been taken for granted, but the extent of its nefariousness has recently become much clearer. As None of Your Damn Business reveals, the problem is not so much that data will be used in ways we don’t want, but rather how willing we have been to have our information used, abused, and sold right back to us. In this startling book, Lawrence Cappello targets moments from the past 130 years of US history when privacy was central to battles over journalistic freedom, national security, surveillance, big data, and reproductive rights. As he makes dismayingly clear, Americans have had numerous opportunities to protect the public good while simultaneously safeguarding our information, and we’ve squandered them every time. None of Your Damn Business is a rich and provocative survey of an alarming topic that grows only more relevant with each fresh outrage of trust betrayed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateOct 17, 2019
    ISBN9780226557885
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      Cappello gives us an in-depth look at various types of privacy and the debate surrounding it in the US. He's particularly skilled at showing the links between the different kinds of privacy (from organization privacy through to decisional privacy) and the importance of viewing privacy as a full spectrum, rather than trying to isolate one kind of privacy from another. He also notes that giving up certain aspects of privacy over the years in the name of national security seemed like a good idea at the time, but points out that once given up, those rights are awfully hard to get back.Although the writing is dense, it is far from dry, as the author's wit and sense of humor peek through often. This book is excellent for anyone interested in the history of the debate over privacy.